Schumacher wouldn't have let him past voluntarily. Of course he did it voluntarily, but he had to do it.
There is no requirement whatsoever for a security clearance for a candidate. The mere fact that a candidate is anointed by its party at a convention - that is all that is required. And it's not up to me or the administration to determine candidate suitability for these briefings.
My grandparents divorced, both of them, and then my mum and dad did. So it's like, divorce, divorce, divorce.
It's true of so many fiction writers that I much prefer the essayistic work they did, whether it's David Foster Wallace's, or John Cheever's, or Nathaniel Hawthorne's.